Comment #6's Translation: First of all many compliments the author who I did not know.

The excerpt is romantic and intense.

Unfortunately, for me I don't see any of romantic in the character of the sheik, that I associate more to the brutality and the misogyny that to the romanticism.

As in general I don't see any of romantic in the harems that, far from being places of mysterious sensual pleasures, was instead very sad and alienating places.

I have found very interesting the article, just because it explains the motivations for which the figure of the sheik has had a high impact on the female imaginary in the first years of the twenty century. I find less comprehensible that, in spite of everything, it has still a high impact in these our modern times.

The author does not only write of sheiks, doesn't she? Cristina